Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford is not ruling out a Tony Bennett covers album.
Rob Halford is contemplating a Tony Bennett covers album
The 73-year-old music legend – who has made his title as one of many metallic style’s biggest vocalists – has admitted he’d like to department out by taking over among the late jazz singer’s tracks.
He informed Final Basic Rock journal: “There’s so many musical issues I wish to do… I used to be singing Tony Bennett within the bathe the opposite day and I listened to my voice and I’m going, ‘Do I dare to think about one thing like this?’
“After which I’m going, ‘I’m an previous man; I can do what I f****** need!’ And I really like Tony Bennett; I used to be unhappy, like lots of us the place, when he handed. He as an icon and a beacon.”
The rock star insisted his influences are large ranging, and he’s drawn to the concept of embracing his “creativeness” as a singer.
He added: “I really like all types of singers. My love for what the voice can do is all the time so enticing to me the concepts, the creativeness, like [Lady] Gaga doing her factor in Vegas when she does the jazz facet of stuff.”
Whereas Rob insisted he has no agency plans to work on a Tony Bennett album, he joked he “higher get a transfer on”.
He stated: “So, yeah, I’d love to try this. I don’t know the way I’d go about it, however I higher get a transfer on if I’m going to do one thing like that.
“I wouldn’t have dared to have finished this again within the day.”
The Breaking The Regulation singer just lately recalled how he was an emotional wreck after listening to about Ozzy Osbourne’s dying final month aged 76.
He informed Detroit radio station WRIF: “Oh, man. I obtained a name the day (Ozzy’s dying) occurred. I simply put the telephone down in my resort room – I feel it was in Leeds, in England, and I simply curled up in a ball and bawled my eyes out for hours.
“I simply could not imagine it. I nonetheless cannot imagine it now. I am nonetheless grieving, like so many individuals.”
Judas Priest performed a gig within the UK the day after Ozzy’s passing on July 22 and Rob recalled how the band included a particular tribute throughout their efficiency of the tune Giants within the Sky.
He recalled: “That tune talks about people who we love in music which have moved on to this stunning place.
“We reference Lemmy and Ronnie (James Dio) and Paul Di’Anno (from Iron Maiden) and Jill (Janus from) Huntress and Chris (Cornell) and all of those greats, Janis Joplin, Freddie Mercury. After which for that present we added Ozzy on the finish.”
